M1 - The Crab Nebula

Not a fantastic image, it lacks sufficient light frames but considering the poor seeing on the night there's some nice structural detail.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C

12 x 180s Lights
5 x 180s Darks

Stacked in DSS, finished in PhotoShop Elements and Gimp

Latest M33 - Triangulum Galaxy

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C

15 x 300s Lights
5 x 300s Darks

Stacked in DSS, finished in PhotoShop Elements and Gimp

M33 triangulum Galaxy

A new target to me M33 the Triangulum Galaxy

Just getting started with auto guiding.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C
Guide cam: QHY 5L-II-C

40 lights x 180s
5 Darks x 180s
5 Flats

Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker.
Finished in Gimp and Photoshop Elements

One I'd forgotten about from August - M81 & M82 Bodes And Cigar Galaxies

Imaged on 31/08/2018

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C

180 x 30s images stacked in DSS
Processed in PixInsight (Trial) and finished in Photoshop Elements

Latest Pacman Nebula

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C

60 x 120s images
10  x 120s darks

Orion Nebula

First image of the Orion and Running man nebulae this year.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C

119 x 30sec subs stacked with Deepsky Stacker
Processed in Gimp and PS Elements

NGC1499 - California Nebula

Part of NGC1499

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C

59 x 60 sec subs stacked with Deepsky Stacker
Processed in Gimp and PS Elements

NGC281 Pacman Nebula

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C

180 x 30sec subs stacked with Deepsky Stacker
Processed in Gimp and PS Elements

M13 Great Globular Cluster in Hercules

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C

M52

Open cluster M52 (NGC 7654)

Bright moon and haze made for none too good seeing, but okay considering.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Altair Astro Hypercam 183C

First shots with a new Altair Astro Hypercam 183C

Getting to know the Hypercam 183C. There's a lot to learn and I have had issues but slowly getting to grips with it and the new processing techniques required to get the most out of it.

The sensor size is about 2/3 that of the DSLR so objects are bigger in the frame.

All these images were taken using the Sky Watcher 80ED DS Pro scope on the Celestron Advanced GT mount.

M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula.

NGC6888 - Crescent Nebula.

NGC6960 - Veil Nebula.

M57 - Ring Nebula.

M51 -Whirlpool Galaxy.

M27 - Dumbbell Nebula

The first time imaging this target. It's nice and bright in a camera so required less processing than other objects.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Pentax K-S2

Stacked from 150 images, each 30" @ ISO1600 using Deep Sky Stacker, finished in PhotoShop Elements 13

Crescent Nebula NGC6888

Crescent Nebula NGC6888

06-09 July 2018

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Pentax K-S2

Stacked from 288 images, each 30" @ ISO1600 using Deep Sky Stacker, finished in PhotoShop Elements 13

From June 2nd a nice image of Jupiter with the Great Red Spot.

Scope: Celestron C8
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: QHY 5L-II-C

Veil Nebula NGC6960

First attempt at the Veil Nebula NGC6960

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Pentax K5

Stacked from 80  images, each 30" @ ISO1600 using Deep Sky Stacker, finished in PhotoShop Elements 13

Reprocessed with a trial version of PhotoShop CC

Strictly not Astronomy but it is looking up - Lightning Saturday Night

Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5474

A bit grainy but not too bad for a first attempt at this object, like the earlier image of the Whirlpool Galaxy it needs more exposure time.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT mount

Stacked from about 80 x 30s images at ISO-1600

Full frame

Centre cropped

Whirlpool Galaxy - M51

First outing with a new Pentax K-S2 camera.

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT mount

Stacked from 80 x 30s images at ISO-1600

And the cropped to the centre

NGC2237 Rosette Nebula including Star cluster NGC2244

First time imaging NGC2237

Scope: Sky Watcher ED80 DS Pro
Mount: Celestron Advanced GT
Camera: Pentax K5

Stacked from 120 images, each 30" @ ISO 1600